Akhbarieh Gardens

Southeastern Iran


This Qajar-era garden has an avenue of tall pines leading down from a minor, two-storey pink-brick palace. It's worth a quick peep but is surely one of Unesco's most underwhelming World Heritage sites. Strolling here or seeking out the hidden courtyard of craft workshops is free, but a trio of small museums (each foreigner/Iranian IR150,000/25,000) incur multiple entrance fees that are hard to stomach at the inflated foreigner rates.


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